Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-02
THE GLOBE IN NEW QUARTERS

THE GLOBE IN NEW QUARTERS
 A Handsome Building Which is Spe
 cfalIy Adapted to the Publication O
 Newspaper.
 BOSTON, May 1.-Fifteen hundred news
 paper men of Boston and vicinity were giver
 reception to day in the new building of tht
 Boston Globe by the proprietors and editors
 of that journal. The Globe of Sunday morn 1 ing had been issued from the old building,
 after which that structure with nearly all of l its contents were abandoned. Tomorrow morning the Globe will be issued from the
 new building with completely new outfit ! from the composing room to the press rooms. Colonel Charles H. Taylor, the 1 Globes editor, today received the congratu-
 lations of prominent journalists in all parts
 of the country. There were many notable l features connected with the removal of this paper from it's old to it's new quarters and some of these were exceed ingly novel. The issue of Saturday
 morning, the last from the old building,
 presented to each purchaser of
 the paper free ride on any street car line of
 the city to any point thereof. This was con-
 veyed in the form of a coupon printed on
 the upper margin, which when cut out and
 presented to any car conductor was received
 as in payment of fare. An informal banquet
 was served in the large reportorial rooms on the eighth floor this afternoon, in which nearly two thousand newspaper workers par ticipated. Tomorrow morning the building will be opened to the public and in the after noon and evening Baldwia's cadet band will give a concert from the front of the great structure, the programme of which will re- quire three hours of continuous music. On Tuesday Colonel Taylor on behalf of the Globe will give banquet to the newsboys of the city, of whom there are more than fifteen hundred. The business men of Boston will give a banquet to | Colonel Taylor at the Vendome on Tuesday, | May 10th, which is intended to be the grand | est affair of the kind in the history of jour- nalism. The most prominent business men | of the city will attend in addition to large | number of prominent journalists from all | parts ot the United States. The new Globe | building is the highest on Washington street, 1 the main thoroughfare of the city, and one | of the most magnificent structures architec- turally and in regard to it's interior arrange ments in the United States, while news paper edifice it is considered perfect in it's construction. It possesses conveniences said to be entirely original in newspaper work. For instance, in the composing room each desk is connected with the | Ncopy cutters" room by an electric annunci- ator and each desk being num- bered to correspond with the num- A man at any desk can be noiselessly sum- moned to the copy writer to receive his copy. This does away with the noise caused by shouting the number of 'slugs" 90 common in composing rooms. In the new room tonight the only noise to was placed in the s'stick." Pneumatic tubes run from every part of the building to every other part, while electric bells and tubes l communicate from each department to the other. Surrounding the composing room is ] gallery which contains private lockers for and in the center of which are rooms for l ,he foreman and proof readers. This leaves he main composing room free from obtruc- ion, thus facilitating the work of the de- oartment. The style Of the architecture of ] he building embodies free adaptation of he Renaissance period. It is nine stories n height and fronts on both Washington md Devonshire streets, having front of GO eet and is 1OS feet deep. The structure contains 104 rooms. The Washington street ront is of brown Springfield and Kibbe duuolO1io: HA11o Guo 4EOuL Ou DeFOnSulre l treet is of red brick with Springfield stone trimmings. Its interior is of iron and marble and is as nearly fire proof as possi ole. In the press room are five Hoe presses, 1 wo 125 horse power engines, two 100 horse power boilers and two dynamos, providing power for six hundred incandescent electric ights. The counting room on the ground ioor of the Washington street front is gor- ,eously fitted up. Its counters of polished herry run all around one side and are sur- mounted by plate glass screens and brass ailings. The floor is of caustile tiling and he ceilings are handsomely decorated. Back if the counting room is the splendid y furnished office of the editor md manager, Colonel c. H. Taylor. The mailing and delivery roons are on Dev- 'nshire street front and are complete in heir arrangement. The entrances at both ronts are of marble and iron and the main corridor is also finely decorated. The struc- ure is heated by steam, the temperature be- ng automatically regulated by electricity. The structure presents fine appearance from Ill sides and from its roof view is present. 6 nS tba o1,tir oit of tba hor |